CHAPTER 2091: CHAPTER 2089: PREMEDITATION

At this moment, five members of the Jiuli moved slowly towards Bai Ruozhu’s family, because the third elder was stalemated on stage with the second elder, and Fen Jiu was seated over at the Fen family’s seats, it seemed there was only Jiao Ling, the mechanist, at the Bai family’s side.

But they were probably wary of Bai Ruozhu’s strength, moving very cautiously, afraid to alert the snake in the grass.

From the moment the second elder issued the command, Bai Ruozhu became intensely nervous, always watching her surroundings. She must ensure her family’s safety, without a moment’s negligence, otherwise, she would have rushed to the stage to help.

At this moment, she quietly formed a hand seal, scattered some drug powder, and then moved closer to the direction of her parents and grandmother.

By now, Bai Zepei’s divine sense was extraordinary, and he soon detected the issue. He said nothing, only a sarcastic expression appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Quickly, the five simultaneously drew daggers, suddenly attacking the Bai Family members.

"Watch out!" The third elder on stage shouted, his face turning red with anger, but he was too far away and couldn’t make it in time.

The second elder’s face showed a smug expression, thinking to himself that these people were still too immature to fight him! For this day he had been planning for nearly ten years, how could he let these two outside juniors ruin it?

Unfortunately, in the next second, the second elder’s expression froze. Bai Zepei murmured something, and an invisible barrier blocked the five, protecting his family within.

"Oh my, an instantly arranged barrier, a genius!" an elder exclaimed in admiration.

Bai Zepei said nothing, but secretly chuckled to himself. In fact, he had been quietly arranging this for half a day, ever since he sat here, he guessed that the second elder might make a desperate effort. So for his family’s safety, even if it was redundant, he needed to set up the protective barrier for his family.

"Husband, you’re amazing!" Si Yihuan widened her eyes, the admiration in her eyes made Bai Zepei feel slightly better.

Immediately, the five people suddenly collapsed to the ground, their faces quickly turning a dark shade of blue.

"It’s severe poison!" someone from the second elder’s side shouted, "Bai Ruozhu, how dare you use poison to kill in Jiuli, is it at the order of the eighth elder?"

"Get lost! At this point, who are you trying to fool with false accusations?" Bai Ruozhu cursed back as she spoke, "Today, anyone who dares harm a hair on my family’s head, I will poison to death one by one. If you don’t believe it, come try me!"

As her words fell, the five on the ground convulsed painfully a few times and then died.

Lin Ping’er and Si Yihuan, being women who had never seen a killing, turned pale, while Jiao Yunyun was more composed, softly comforting them: "Don’t be afraid, if it weren’t for Zepei’s precautions, it would be us lying on the ground now."

She then pointed to the daggers fallen on the ground, "Look, their daggers were coated with severe poison."

Though Lin Ping’er and the others couldn’t see, they noticed the daggers had an unusual color, glowing with a faint blue and black sheen, instinctively recognizing them as poisoned weapons.

"Indeed, these people should be killed, or else they would have caused more killing, even if they didn’t hurt us, what if they killed someone else nearby?" Bai Yihong was resolute this time, the other’s actions having provoked his inner fury.

On stage, the second elder gnashed his teeth, glaring at Bai Ruozhu, but unfortunately he couldn’t capture her family as hostages, otherwise he could have forced her to hand over the black meteoric iron.

While everyone was focused on Bai Ruozhu’s tactics, the third elder and Elder Su simultaneously moved, one sneaking an attack on the ninth elder, the other rescuing the great elder.

Once the great elder was out of danger, several other elders immediately attacked the second elder, whose confidants also charged to fight against a few elders.

The people held hostage below were anxious, someone shouted: "Everyone resist, we must not let the second elder succeed!"

"Attack!" The second elder on stage released two puppet beasts to block the third elder’s assault, suddenly shouting to the people below.

Immediately, someone swung a blade, slashing fiercely, a blood line arced through the air, and silhouettes fell limply to the ground.

"Madam!" Elder Su shouted in agony.

"Second brother..." the tenth elder also shed tears.

It turned out that while everyone’s attention was on rescuing the great elder, the second elder had sent people to hold several elders’ families hostage, and at his command, several elders’ families were killed one by one.

Only then did Bai Ruozhu understand, those five came to assassinate her family not only because of the second elder’s personal vendetta, it was part of his original plan.

Watching one by one have their throats slit, blood covering the ground of the deceased, her eyes could not help but heat up.

"Everyone stop!" The second elder began laughing wickedly, "Eighth elder, if you do not stop, the next to die will be your second son. Tenth elder, the next is your wife, fifth elder, do you not care for your daughter’s life?"

The great elder trembled with rage, pointing at the second elder, "You’ve become blinded by power, killing your own kin like this, you will reap what you sow sooner or later!"

The second elder laughed heartily, "Throughout history the victor becomes king, the loser condemned. Once I control Jiuli, I will lead Jiuli to prosperity, and eventually destroy the Quanrong Clan."

Bai Ruozhu gritted her teeth, secretly giving her second brother a look, motioning for him to protect the family well, as she quietly slipped away.

Soon she realized the severity of the problem. She initially thought it was the second elder having people kill unexpectedly, so many had knives to their throats making it hard to resist. But she also suspected, is the combat ability of most people in Jiuli really this poor?

When she noticed seven people standing at the edge of the venue, all forming hand seals and chanting incantations, she realized things were not as simple as they appeared.

Of those seven, one she had seen speaking before, a member of the Wei Hall, clearly these seven had set up some kind of barrier.

She looked around and found Fen Jizhi was closest to her, and everyone’s attention was on the families of several elders, coincidentally the Fen family had no elders, only these clan experts like Fen Jiu had their acupoints pressed, which made the opponents not too focused on them.

She moved carefully, wanting to set up a simple concealment array for herself but found it had no effect!

She looked again at the distant seven, understanding the function of this barrier.

Fen Jizhi also noticed her and desperately signaled with his eyes, he kept glancing towards his left chest. Bai Ruozhu quickly maneuvered over and swiftly tapped his left chest.

"It’s the Seven-Star Returning Yuan Array, preventing the mechanical puppets from transforming." Fen Jizhi could finally speak and immediately whispered, "Also, it suppresses Jiuli’s heart method inside here, I only have thirty percent of my strength left."

Bai Ruozhu was puzzled, "Doesn’t it suppress their own people? I just saw the second elder use mechanical puppets."

"They used a dispel item in advance, he had long planned this." Fen Jizhi gritted his teeth as he spoke.